Posts Tagged ‘Portfolio’

SAN FRANCISCO (
MarketWatch ) — Mother was wrong: What you don’t know can hurt you.
Investors nowadays should realize this all too well, as headline-making events are forcing people to expect the unexpected. Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and disaster in Japan have added to known worries like faltering economic growth and the [...]
Every day, a veritable ocean of oil cascades through thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing America, making its way from shipping ports and exploration fields to refineries and end users. A similarly vast tangle of pipes does the same kind of job for natural gas. And then there’s the pipeline for investors.
Master limited partnerships, which [...]
Just a few weeks ago , Cairo was little more than an intriguing place to visit, at least for most investors. Many couldn’t find Libya and Tunisia on a map. And pundits and market prognosticators focused on earnings, not uprisings, to assess where the market was headed.
But reverberations from the upheaval in the Arab world [...]
In typical fashion , many financial advisers are encouraging investors panicking over the escalating turmoil in Egypt to sit tight, at least for now. But for those who believe things will only get worse, there are investment moves that could either boost returns or protect a portfolio — and in some cases do both.
One strategy: [...]

(MONEY Magazine) — I’ve read a lot about the benefits of rebalancing your portfolio annually, but I’ve never seen the answer to these questions: How do I decide which stocks to sell? And when should I “wait it out,” assuming that a good stock will rise back to its pre-crash price, as opposed to pulling [...]
By Sara Nunnally, Editor, Smart Investing Daily, TaipanPublishingGroup.com
Back in mid-August, I told you about new growth in investments in emerging markets. I even noted a couple exchange-traded funds that might benefit from such growth.
I talked about the iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market ETF (TUR:NYSE) and the Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (IDX:NYSE), and [...]
